Is Springboard coming back?
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Anonymous
| Which schools have rightfully dumped them? Which schools are keeping them? |
Anonymous
| I hope not. |
Anonymous
| I dunno, our school was already working on a contract with a new vendor when the news broke so we would have canned them anyway. |
Anonymous
What are all the schools that weren't working on a vendor going to do I wonder? |
Anonymous
Well, there is YMCA and Champions and Polite Piggies and probably a few other options too. |
Anonymous
Two Rivers dumped them and had reps from the new after care program there the last day of school. I don't recall the name, but bonus is they have care for days off and breaks. |
Anonymous
In fairness, the decision to replace Springboard at TR was made before the scandal broke. The new vendor is ABC something— and was indeed on site the last few days of school handing out info. |
Anonymous
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What about:
KIPP, Shining Stars Montessori, E.L. Haynes Public Charter, Democracy Prep Congress Heights Brent Elementary, Langley Elementary, Watkins Elementary, Van Ness Elementary, Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan, Houston Elementary, Payne Elementary, and Miner Elementary School? |
Anonymous
Langley has fired Springboard already. |
Anonymous
| Pretty sure CHML fired them...I certainly hope they have at least! Not sure who the new provider is though. |
Anonymous
It takes time to secure a vendor for after school. You can't just call up and they start the next day. I hope these schools and DCPS are thinking about this and getting something together before school starts this fall. Also, with so many schools that were serviced by Springboard, I hope these remaining vendors have the capacity to take up all the schools. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Flex Academy isn't really an afterschool provider. They provide enrichment activities and clubs but they don't manage the day-to-day operations of running an afterschool program. Often Flex Academy and an afterschool provider work together at a school. |
Anonymous
This will be Flex's first year as aftercare vendor at Watkins and Langley. They approached with a proposal that made them more attractive than Springboard and that is why those schools were already canning Springboard when the news broke. |
Anonymous
Interesting! Our school uses flex for classes only, curious to hear how it goes. |